Recent Updates
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Menzer & Hill, P.A., Files an Arbitration Claim Against UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Headline News 12/16/2010The Securities Law Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A., www.suemyadvisor.com, announced today it filed an arbitration claim against UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”), (NYSE: UBS) on behalf of an investor who lost the vast majority of his retirement sa...
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Madoff trustee sues HSBC for $9 billion
Headline News 12/06/2010The court-appointed trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's former investment firm has filed a lawsuit against HSBC for $9 billion for allegedly aiding the most massive Ponzi scheme in history. The trustee, Irving Picard, alleged that London-based HSBC ...
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Orlando law firm gives away 1,000 free Thanksgiving turkeys
Headline News 11/23/2010Hundreds of hungry families lined up outside the Pendás Law Firm’s Orlando office early Tuesday morning, hoping to receive a free Thanksgiving turkey.Starting at 8 a.m., attorney Lou Pendás and a group of volunteers began handing out frozen turkeys t...
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Study: AZ Boycott Cost State $140M
Headline News 11/18/2010A new report shows the boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million.The analysis commissioned by the Center for American Progress says lost hotel revenue in the first four months after th...
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Minn.'s Pawlenty ups challenge to fed health law
Headline News 11/12/2010Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a potential GOP presidential candidate, stepped up his attack Thursday on President Barack Obama's federal health care law with a court filing challenging its cost to states.Pawlenty and Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri,...
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Wis. court-appointed attorneys seek raise in pay
Headline News 11/11/2010Court-appointed defense attorneys in Wisconsin say they deserve a raise, and they're asking the state Supreme Court to help make it happen. But the justices say it's up to state lawmakers to make that decision. Court-appointed lawyers represent defen...
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Poll shows voters split over Supreme Court judges
Headline News 11/01/2010A Des Moines Register poll shows more than one-third of voters want to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who joined a unanimous ruling that legalized gay marriage. The poll published Sunday found that 37 percent of likely voters intend to vote...
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Justice O'Connor says she regrets Nev. robo calls
Headline News 10/29/2010Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is apologizing for the 50,000 recorded telephone calls made to Nevada voters in which she supports a ballot measure to change the way state judges are selected.O'Connor said Wednesday that she did not...
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US Fed won't join banks in appeal to Supreme Court
Headline News 10/27/2010The Federal Reserve has decided not to join major banks in asking the US Supreme Court to let the central bank keep secret the details of its emergency lending programs during the financial crisis.A group representing US and European commercial banks...
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Miss. man awarded $103M in lawsuit against lawyer
Headline News 10/27/2010A Mississippi businessman has been awarded $103 million in a lawsuit against the Chicago-based law firm that he accused of defrauding his oil and gas business. Lavon Evans Jr. filed the lawsuit in Jones County Circuit Court in Mississippi in 2008. It...
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Law Firms Feel Pressure From New Breed of Competitors
Headline News 10/26/2010The legal industry is falling apart. Not in the sense pundits meant when they gave that diagnosis in 2008 as firms were hit with the harsh reality of the recession. Rather, the industry is moving away from a monolithic provider of legal services -- t...
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Law firm gears up to defend U.S. bank foreclosures
Headline News 10/21/2010A major law firm has formed a special task force aimed at defending lenders and mortgage loan servicers as legal challenges to questionable foreclosure practices mount.Global law firm K&L Gates LLP said on Tuesday it has assembled a team to help ...